Millions of latinos demand fundamental reforms in US immigration laws.

Hundreds of thousands of people went out to march once again in Los Angleles and other (Southern California cities)/(cities in Southern California). The Los Angeles Police Department was put on a tactical alert to protect the security of the demonstrators. Nonetheless/Nevertheless, there were no incidents of violence.

But in a press conference called by the Coalicion del 25 de Marzo, in which members of the coalition Somos America (We are America) also participated, the speaker of the State Assembly, Fabian Nuñez confidently said that "this is a day that shows the strength and the economic and social contributions of the latinos of California, and we support them all, whether they went to work today or whether they didn't."

There were also demonstrations in dozens of cities in other parts of the United States in the form of marches, religious services, vigils, and congressional petitions.

Saul Solorzano, the director of CARECEN, indicated that "on this day the whole country is going to see that all of us are united" to demand the legalization of undocumented workers.

In New York, the demonstrators, among them the Democratic legislator Jose Serrano, formed various "human chains," while the open-air market on Union Square and the Broadway sector were almost completely empty.

In some cities of New Jersey, Rhode Island, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, activists went to the offices of local officials to ask for greater support for their cause. Their goal was to show the entire population of the country that immiigrants, instead of being on welfare, contribute to the economic development of the country.

Professor Mark Baldassar, the research director of the Instituto de Politica, is in agreement. "The boycott strongly indicates that the principal part of the problem is economic and shows that undocumented immigrants are intimately linked to the US economy. We must look for practical instead of ideological solutions to this problem if we want to avoid the possibility of large-scale social disturbances later on."

An ultraconservative pundit, Pat Buchanan, described the events as "a massive act of extortion” to the congress and the White House."

"This is the calm before the storm," said Armando Navarro, a professor at the University of California, Riverside. "We must organize a program of civil disobedience and make sure that each neighborhood has its own immigrant defense committee."

"We must learn from the civil rights movement for African Americans," said Navarro. "When they killed Martin Luther King they destroyed the movement. But here they can kill off Nativo Lopez, Jesse Diaz, or Gabriel Rodriguez, and the movement will continue to go forward quite easily."